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Thanks to the efforts of Stakeholder Forum Fellow and former Executive Director Felix Dodds, the following is a listing of upcoming events organized by the United Nations and its various arms. We hope you find this information helpful as you work to promote a more sustainable world.
2026
- 17 – 28 August, 17th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, UNCCD COP 17, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
- 8 – 22 September, 81st Session of the UN General Assembly, Opening and General Debate, UNGA 81, New York, United States
- 18th September, The Sustainable Development Goals Moment
- 22 – 26th September, High-Level Week (and the 28th)
- 23rd September, High-level meeting to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to Development
- 23rd September, The Secretary-General will convene a high-level meeting on climate action and the just transition, focused on accelerating a just and orderly energy transition to renewables; mobilizing and scaling up affordable finance and investments for developing countries; and delivering adaptation and resilience support in an era of climate overshoot
- 24th September, High-level meeting to address the existential threats posed by sea level rise
- 25th September, High-level meeting on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response
- 28th September, High-level meeting to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the adoption of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action – against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, and related intolerance
- 29th September, High-level plenary meeting to commemorate and promote the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
- 20 – 27 September, New York Climate Week, New York, USA
- 14 – 18 September, 22nd Meeting of the Chemical Review Committee (Rotterdam Convention), CRC-22, Rome, Italy
- 21 – 25 September, 22nd Meeting of the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee (Stockholm Convention), POPRC-22, Rome, Italy
- 28 September – 3 October, 70th Meeting of the International Whaling Commission , IWC70 , Hobart, Australia
- 5 – 8 October, UNFCCC Pre-COP, Fiji, Pacific Islands
- 11 – 13 October, World Health Summit, Berlin
- 12 – 18 October, World Bank Group/IMF, Bangkok
- 19 – 30 October, 17th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP17), Yerevan, Armenia
- 1 – 4 November, Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), St. John’s, Antigua and Barbuda
- 9 – 20 November, UN Climate Change Conference COP31, Antalya, Türkiye
- 9 – 12 November, UN World Data Forum, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- 1 December, UK formally assumes G20 Presidency, London, UK
- 2 – 4 December, 2026 UN Water Conference, United Arab Emirates
- 14 – 15 December, G20 Heads of State, Miami, USA
2027
- 1 January, United States will host the 53rd G7 Summit
- 1 January, Ethiopia formally assumes COP32 Presidency
- 11 – 22 January, Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction, New York, USA
- 18 – 22 January, Davos World Economic Forum, Switzerland
- 23 – 26 February, 58th meeting of the UN Statistical Commission, New York, USA
- 3 – 4 March, ECOSOC Development Forum, New York, USA
- 13 March, Plastics Pollution INC 5.4, TBC
- 8 – 19 March, 71st session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women, New York, USA
- Priority theme: Accelerating the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls in the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
- 15 – 19 March, 68th meeting of the Standing Committee to the Convention on Wetlands, Gland, Switzerland
- 21 – 25 March, 11th World Water Forum, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- 12 – 18 April, IMF–World Bank Spring Meetings, Washington, DC, USA
- 19 – 23 April, ECOSOC Financing for Development Forum, New York, USA
- 19 – 30 April , Basel Convention COP18, Rotterdam Convention COP13, and Stockholm Convention COP13, Panama City, Panama.
- 5 – 6 May, 12th Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals, New York, USA
- 23 – 30 May, 80th World Health Assembly, Geneva, Switzerland
- 24 – 28 May, UN Forum on Forests (UNFF22), New York, USA
- 7 – 17 June, Bonn Climate Change Conference, Bonn, Germany
- 19 – 27 June, London Climate Week, London, UK
- 6 – 15 July, UN High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, New York, USA.
- The theme of the 2027 ECOSOC and HLPF will be: “Scaling up just transitions to achieving sustainable development, poverty eradication and the full implementation of the 2030 Agenda and its SDGs.” The SDGs to be reviewed in depth are Goals 4 (Quality Education), 10 (Reduced Inequalities), 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production), 15 (Life on Land) and 17 (Partnerships for the Goals).
- TBC August, Food System Summit +6, TBC
- 6 – 10 September, Minamata Convention (COP7), Geneva, Switzerland
- 7 – 21 September, UNGA 82, New York, USA
- TBD September, Heads of State High-Level Session of the UN High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, New York, USA
- 26 – 29 October, 11th Session of the Meeting of the Parties to the Water Convention, Dakar, Senegal
- TBD Oct, WHO World Health Summit, Berlin, Germany
- 8 – 19 November, UNFCCC COP32, Antalya, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- 22 – 26 November, 69th meeting of the Standing Committee to the Convention on Wetlands, Gland, Switzerland
- 29 November – December 3, Preceding Meeting for UNEA 8: Open-ended Committee of Permanent Representatives (OECPR-8), Nairobi, Kenya
- 6 – 10 December, UN Environment Assembly 8, Nairobi, Kenya